![]() He was fundraising for Dropbox, I was fundraising for SocialCast and we passed each other in the VC office and met there. And Drew and I actually go all the way back to 2008, we actually met each other while we were both fundraising. It's one of the few companies I think that's still founder led and that is still a dominant product, right? I talk to customers every day who - they say, hey, this is one of the only things that on a subscription basis I paid for for more than a decade. I mean, Dropbox is, obviously, is just such an iconic company here in the valley. And now that you're at Dropbox, could you maybe talk about the impact you've had on the organization? The product has come a long way, so could you talk about the product innovations and really the overall story? And that playbook kind of carried with me and kind of brought me in many ways to Dropbox. And then how do you take a business that had a very dominant kind of one product line in server virtualization and how do you actually become a multi-product company. You know, one around large scale M&A, around kind of expanding into a global R&D center. And then, over my stint at VMware I was on the exec team, ran a number of businesses and product lines and really kind of learned kind of a three stage playbook for growth there. I had a venture backed company called SocialCast that was acquired. So at VMware, I actually arrived there in a kind of a transitional period, right? It was going in the kind of the second era of VMware. Maybe to start out with - you were at VMware before, could you share a little bit about what you did out there and what brought you to Dropbox? ![]() Really appreciate you, Timothy, for being here with us. Has had former stints at VMware and a bunch of other tech companies here. And we were lucky to have Timothy Young, who's the president of Dropbox. I'm part of the Jefferies Software Equity Research Team. ( NASDAQ: DBX) Jefferies Software Conference J1:25 PM ET
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